the daphne du maurier syndicate
Initial Price: £10,950 plus VAT // Number of shares: 20 // Trainer: Andrew Balding
(2025 gr c - Dark Angel x Shamlahar)
The daphne du maurier Syndicate
Number of horses: 1
Cost per horse: €100,000
Number of shares: 20
Initial price: £10,950 plus VAT
Second year cost for three-year-old career: £5,600 plus VAT
Trainer: andrew balding
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andrew balding
Location: Kingsclere, Nr. Newbury, Berkshire. Andrew Balding has been based at Kingsclere since he took over the reins from his father in 2003. He quickly established himself as one of the leading trainers in the UK producing Oaks Winner, Casual Look, in his first season.
Balding is known for his ability to get the best out of his horses of all ages and types, training his 2,500th winner this year, and amassing over £8million in prizemoney this year.
A master of the big occasion, he has achieved outstanding Classic and Royal Ascot success with the likes of 4 x Group 1 winning filly Alcohol Free and 2000 Guineas winners Kameko and Chaldean. His star mare Kalpana has achieved tremendous success, winning the Group 1 Champion Fillies & Mares Stakes two years in a row, and of course, an emphatic victory in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes Group 1, beating multiple Derby winners, and 2025 Horse of the Year, Calandagan.
He has already enjoyed great success with Highclere having trained Bonfire to win the Dante and 2022 two–year-old star Harrow, to win two hugely valuable sales races, this year he trained Respond to victory in the Foundation Stakes (Listed) and he will remain in training next year.
He and his wife Anna Lisa, are the most generous of hosts on stable visits at their historic Park House Stables set in the stunning rolling hills of Hampshire.